Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-24 Thread Tim Triche, Jr.
#5 is what I was thinking of when I responded. A simple RewriteRule, if anyone still uses Apache. Release vs devel and/or 3.0 vs 3.1 vs 3.2, e.g. http://bioconductor.org/release/BiocGenerics/ Pointing analogously to http://bioconductor.org/3.0/BiocGenerics/ seems like a good minimal

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Huber
Before we start a religious war, can we make progress on the pragmatic goal of making it possible to provide such URLs to people? There are two concepts - ‘the package' - a specific version, running in a specific environment, ‘frozen’, etc. (Gabe) - ‘the package’ - as a concept and a living

[Bioc-devel] Rtools warning on tracker page

2015-03-24 Thread Glyn Bradley
Hi After uploading our package to the tracker, it built successfully on all systems with no errors. But we have the following Rtools related WARNING: WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages, but no version of Rtools compatible with R 3.2.0 was found. (Only the following incompatible

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-24 Thread Martin Morgan
On 03/24/2015 02:31 AM, Wolfgang Huber wrote: Before we start a religious war, can we make progress on the pragmatic goal of making it possible to provide such URLs to people? There are two concepts - ‘the package' - a specific version, running in a specific environment, ‘frozen’, etc. (Gabe)

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-24 Thread Gabe Becker
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Wolfgang Huber whu...@embl.de wrote: 5. At the end of the day I find myself casting my lot for landing pages with the form http://bioconductor.org/release/BiocGenerics/ which leads to a little less typing but not the dynamic resolution that started this

Re: [Bioc-devel] Rtools warning on tracker page

2015-03-24 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
The builder for submitted packages uses the devtools package and this is a bug in devtools: https://github.com/hadley/devtools/issues/717 You can ignore it. Dan - Original Message - From: Glyn Bradley glyn.x.brad...@gsk.com To: bioc-devel@r-project.org Sent: Tuesday, March 24,

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-24 Thread Fischer, Bernd
I just think there are a couple of subtleties here. I certainly don't begrudge people wanting to type less and find packages easier. But if a naive user with a default (read: release) Bioc installation goes to http://bioconductor.org/CoolAwesomePkg and see's that it is available in bioconductor